Lech Mackiewicz
Lech Mackiewicz is an actor, born 1960.
Theatre is the centre of this career and the film credits are only its visible edge. Lech Mackiewicz, born in Skierniewice in 1960, trained at the National Academy of Theatrical Arts in Cracow and later at UTS, and has worked as an actor, a director and a playwright across Poland, Australia, Japan, Korea and Italy.
He founded the Auto Da Fe Theatre Co in Sydney in 1987, took a New South Wales Performing Arts Scholarship in 1991, assisted Neil Armfield on a production of Diary of a Madman starring Geoffrey Rush at Belvoir St Theatre, and collaborated with Tadashi Suzuki's SCOT company in Japan. He also studied with the Moscow Arts Theatre. That is a stage biography, not a screen one.
What reaches this page is a short list of films, most of them supporting: a fellow worker in The Pianist in 2002, named roles in The Winner and Teenage Kicks, a part in I'll Find You in 2019, and a 2023 film called Anxiety that the credits list without a character at all. It is an honest record of a man whose real work happened in rooms with an audience in them.
Movies (5)
Where to start with Lech Mackiewicz
The Pianist is where most people will meet him, and it is worth saying plainly that he is a fellow worker in one of its crowds rather than a presence in it. Start there only because you have probably seen it already.
The credits that let him act are the smaller ones. The Winner and I'll Find You give him named men to carry, and Teenage Kicks hands him another. Anxiety arrives in 2023 with no character listed here, so treat it as a blind pick.
The screen record undersells him, and that is the honest thing to say on a page like this. A theatre company built in Sydney, directing across Europe, Asia and Australia, decades of stage work in several countries: none of it leaves a credit row you can click on, and this page can only show you what does.